TSMC December Consolidated Revenues Rise - Quick Facts

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (TSM) reported Friday that its net revenues for the month of December 2019, on a consolidated basis, were approximately NT$103.31 billion, up 15 percent from last year's NT$89.83 billion.

Sequentially, net revenues dropped 4.2 percent from November 2019.

Revenues for January through December totaled NT$1.07 trillion, a growth of 3.7 percent from the same period in 2018.

Apple Inc. is taking necessary precautions including Covid-19 testing for those employees returning to work at its headquarters in Silicon Valley, Bloomberg reported citing people familiar with the process. The company, which opened its main Apple Park office in May bringing back some hardware and software engineers, plans the gradual reopening of the building keeping the coronavirus safeguards.

A U.S. appeals court has blocked the sales of Bayer AG's dicamba-based Xtendimax in the United States. The three-judge panel in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled that the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) overstated the protections and substantially understated or ignored the risks related to the use of dicamba-based herbicides.

Tesla Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk has called for a breakup of Amazon after the online retail giant refused to publish an upcoming book about COVID-19. Writer Alex Berenson said on Twitter that Amazon refused to publish his booklet about the coronavirus as it did not comply with the company's guidelines. Berenson is a former New York Times reporter.